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God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

John Henry Newman

It’s really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, … The situation is just so tenuous with where it’s going to hit. You don’t want to take any chances.
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Decision Reflection Want
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.
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Angel Purpose
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Exercise Friends Love Men
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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Evil Excess Substance
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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Dominion Love Powerful Strong
God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.
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Given Missions Priceless
May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
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Giving Long Support
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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Found Function Science
Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.
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Enquiry Modesty Religious
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.
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Guide Judging Men Party
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
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Mother Religious Today
All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.
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Giving Men Perspective
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.
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Dogma Fall Men
Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Change Life Positive
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Catholic Love Soul
Man is emphatically self-made.
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Made Men Self
Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.
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Dark Light
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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Remuneration Treasure Years
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
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Certainty Creeps Soar
Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.
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Cures Evil Flagrant
Go down again – I dwell among the people.
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Down Dwell People
There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
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Passion Sky Struggle
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
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Drawing Prayer Spiritual
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
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Action Done Practice
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
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Artist Better Lions
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
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Faith Hazards Sacrifice
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
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Fighting Shame Sin

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

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